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Show Ht 858 Cuar.23. Theatrum Botanicum. Truize 7 ee other butgreater,{acceededbythe like blacke and flat fhining feedes the roote confilteth of a great buth of long blacke ftringes and threads whichperith not yearelyas the former doe, but abide from id yeare to yeare, yet often. soe times the ftalkes with : leaves above ground dye downe andrife afrefhin the Spring. Cuar.23. of Plants. The Theater ED = Trine 7. 46 or Snecfewor Ptarmica yulgcrio. Commonfield Pelletory ; ary Dracans, “yulgaris, Ordin . Perficaria altera frate{cens longifolia maculata Uirginiana flore carneo, This other Varginia Arfmart growethup withftraight round ftalkes, much higher than the laft, with much lona ger and narrowerleaves, marked alfo oftentimes in thelike manner, and often alfo without: this is more plenrifull in branches of Sowers, whichare fhorter {pikes but thicker fet, withfine blufh coloured flowers, much lar= ger than in anyof the former, but gave no feede with the Gentleman Mr, John (Morrice ofIfebworth, that had it rifen from the feede that was fent him from a friend in Virgiwia : the rooteis greater and more woody than the laft, and perifhed with the extremitie of the hard winterfroft, The Placeand Time, The former twoforts grow almoft every where with usin watery plathes, ditches, and the like, that for the moft partare drie in Summer : the third in Germany: the fourth in thelike places abont Antwerpe, as Lobel faith: the three laft forts came from Virgisia ; the formerforts flowring in June, and their {eede being ripe in Augm/t: bat the other forts flower much later withus, and fearce perfect their feede exceptthe fift, The Names. : Tris called inGreeke 'd\poreme:, idef?, Piper aquaticum, many doe callit alfo Hydropiper in Latine, and generally Perficaria a foliorumforme, yet {omediftinguifh them,calling the milde or gentle fort Perficaria fimply, and the other Hydropiper or Perficaria wrens,as Lobel doth, or mordaxas Thaliws doth: fome as Lugdunenfis faith would make the {potted fort tobe Plumbago Pliny, becaufe of the leaden-like fpotson the leaves, butthey arc muchdeceived : fome alfo call it Britanica Pliny, but they are as farre wide asthe other : Lacuna calleth it Crateegonum, and Anguillara ca\leth the fharpe fort by that name of (rateogonon, andby fome Zingiber caninum: the third lis onely remembred by Baxhinus, the fourth by Lobel, and the three laft by no other before: the Jta/ians call it Perficaria, the Spaniards Munchas, the French Culrage, the Germans Wafer pfeffer, and Muckenkraut, the Dutch Watter poper, and we in Englifh Water pepperand Arimart, and in fome countries Red-knees, The Vertues, The milde Arfmart is of a cooling and drying qualitie,and the other contrarie is hot and drie: the firltis very effectuall for putrid ulcers, either in man or beaft to killthe wormes, and clenfe the putrified places ; the juyce thereof dropped in, or other wife applied. it likewife confumethallcold {wellings,anddiffolveth the congealed blond of bruifes byftrokes, falls, &c. a peece of the roote, or fomeof the feede bruifed and held to an aking- tooth taketh away the paine: the leaves bruifed andlaid tothe: joint that hatha felon thereon taketh it away : the juyce dropped into their eares that have wormesin them deftroyeth them quickly: if the herbe be rowed in a chamberit will foonekill all the Fleas therein ; and if the herbe or juyce thereof be put to horfes or othercattelles fores, it will drive away the Flyes that will fticke thereto, even in the hotteft time of Summer : a good handfull of the herbe put under a horfes{faddle, will make him travell better, although hee were halfetired before. The milde Arfmart is held robe good again{t hot empoftumes and inflammations at the beginning, and to heale gteene wounds, Cuap, XX ILI. Prarmica vulgaris. Common field Pelletory or Sneefeworté. Ext unto Dittander fhould follow Tarragon called archon and Dracunchlus hortenfis & efcslentus Ny being of the like hot and fharpebiting tafte, but that I have entreated therofin my former Book,as alfoof the garden Dragons,whofe figure I herewith fhew you, & mutt in this Chapter fhew you the ZINA Ptarmica vulgaris, ordinarily called wilde Pelletory and Sneefeworte, of which kindealfo I have Qe Sy fet forth one with double fowers in my former Booke, Pyrethrum alfo vulgare,calied by us Pelletory of Spaine, although fet forth in my former Booke. Vnto this I multadde an other flranger farce knowne fo much asby name toour Nation. This commonPellétory fhooteth forth diversbrittle ftalkes a yarde high and more {pread into fundry branches, whereon are fet narrow long leaves pointed at the ends, and finely dented about the edges ftanding one above another up to the toppes, where grow many white fowersin a round tuft to- gether, fomewhatlike unto thofe of Yarrow or Millfoyle, with a very {mall yellowifh thrummeinthe middle, bordered about with very fhort whitifh leaves dented in at the broadends, which pafling away leave hehinde them fimail heades with chaffie feede therein :the rooteis long and whitifh joynted at feverall diftances, creeping farre about under ground: both leafe androote are of an hot tharpe biting tafle, likeuntothe truc Pelletoryof Spaine whereof it tooke the name. J 2 Pyrethrum vulgare officinarum. Pelletory of Spaine. This is a {malf low plant bearing manyfinely cut long leaves uponthe ftalkes lying on the ground, much larger than Camomill, bearing at the toppes of eachone fingle large flower havinga pale or border of manyleaves, white onthe upperfide, and reddifh underneath fet about the middle yellow thrumme, but not ftanding fo clofe Joyned at the bottomeas the Camomill flowers doe, but more fevered one fromanother: it beareth {mall whitifh feede whichis hardly found and difcerned from the chaffe : the roote is long growing downeright ofthe bignefle ofa mansfinger orthumbein our conntrie, but not halfe fo great where it growethnaturally, with divers fie bres ftom the fides, of a very hot, fharpe, and biting tafle, drawing much water into the mouthbeing a while chewedafter it hath beene dried, but nothing fo much whileit is frefh and greene:the plantis very tender with not nmachsite the flowérs fomewhat larger than the other, elfe ferabout a mi ie like having a border or pale of white leaves, than the thrumme: the roote hereofis more ftringy and fibrous Sasi The Place, hedge er The fir: growethinfields and medowes bythealfo an ae and path wayes almoft every where, and in lanes s :the lai grounds, the other in Spaine and divers other countrieSwit[erland ot wasfound in the mountainousfields of Helvetia and other partsthere abouts. — The Time, ‘ j the The firfkandlaft Hower inthe end of Ineand in Joly, and fecond not untill Azguft with us, and feldome giveth ripe feede,unleffe carefully preferved in the Winter. The Names. c toria, Iris calledin Greeke #epeuxh Ptarmica, quod eft Sternuta or Sternutamentoria, asitisalfo in Latine from theeffect of proTragus voking fneefing. The firft is diverfly called by divers, Millefolinm primum, callethit Tanacetum albumfive acutum, & collect, ftir Gefeer inbortis Tarchon fylueftre vel aquaticum, oe in us on Diofcorium,Cord pinm Draco aquaticus, Brunfelfius Pyrethr s five Praranica, des Pyrethbrum (ylueftre,Dodoneus Draco fylveftri fis calleth Bauhinus veferreth it to that plant which Lugdunen Menthe Sarafenice {pecies altera Myconij, and yet maketh it alfo a, Clas akinde of Coftmarie ;Thalius Ptarmica [yluefiru Germanic Stern An fius Ptarmicapratenfis, Lobel Ptarmica folio Taracony vel tamentoria, Matthiolus Fuchfius,Ge(ver,and others Ptarmica,and Baubinus Dracunculus pratenfis ferrat ofoliasthe fecondis called by in bortis all Authors Pyrethrum, and uf fome Salivarin,but Gefner fis and addeth Germanicum.as itis thought Matthiolys, Lagdanen the all other altorums, Lobel officinarum,and Baubinus fire Bellidise lalt is fee forth onely by Bauhinus who calleth it Dracuncislde Al- Us not enduring our Winter, unleffe it be very carefully preferved. : 30 Ptarmica Alpina five Dracunculus Alpinus Sccbiofefolio. Wilde Pelletory with Scabicusleaves. pinus folio Scabiofesit is called by the Arabians Mavarcaraha, or wherconarefet divers long pale greene leaves on both fides one above another as in the former , but jagged or the French Pied Alexandre by the Germans and Dutch Bertram5 itis called'in’ Englifp wilde Pelletory, or wilde-Pelletory of This mountaine Pelletory hath round ftalkes about a foote high, fpreading fome branches towardsthe toppes, like unto aScabions leafe : at the topes ofthe flalkes and branches ftand dcepely cutin on hoth fides, fomewhiat the ify G s: Pelitresby Hacharcharba by the Italians Piretro,by the Spaniard Spaine,as the {econd is called the true Pelletory of Sprine, 2. Pyreth ym vulgare offecin OM 859 |
